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  • efforts in making inclusive excellence a core value of PLU. We seek to foster a community that goes beyond tolerance of difference to one that is guided by the principles of equity, social justice, cultural competence and engaged citizenship. This comes through in our academic work including our annual Holocaust Education Conference, and this fall will also mark the beginning of a Minor in Holocaust and Genocide Studies, one of only a few in the nation. It comes through in our commitment to studying

  • in my office at a mental-health center, in their homes and in the community. I’m on a unique team that services adults with severe and persistent mental-health illnesses as well as a substance-abuse diagnosis. My time is split between helping clients work on their symptoms and connecting them to resources to help aid in their recovery. How did studying Psychology at PLU help prepare you for your graduate studies and your current career? Studying Psychology helped form my clinical background prior

  • inclusion, and of discerning one’s vocation and service in the world. Jen RudeUniversity Pastor“Lutheran higher education is the foundation for all the other values that we live. Lutheran higher education is the wisdom and the nourishment that supports those values and those ways of living together.” Rooted in Questioning “In order to understand the present, and ultimately the future, we must understand the tradition we’re rooted in,” says Marit Trelstad, endowed chair of Lutheran Studies and director

  • teammate, to expect my best from myself and to push myself even when I didn’t think I could,” she says. Following in their footsteps, Flores-Handley coached for two decades, at Rogers High School in Puyallup, WA and elsewhere, including five years as an assistant PLU softball coach. She won a national championship with Lake Tapps Volleyball Club in 2015, and was named 2006 South Puget Sound League Coach of the Year and All-Area Coach of the Year by The News Tribune of Tacoma. Her teachers at PLU

  • Planning and Land Services Fire Marshal’s Office: http://www.co.pierce.wa.us/Index.aspx?NID=117 Pierce County’s Wastewater Treatment, Surface Water Management and the Water Quality Control Plant: http://www.piercecountywa.org/index.aspx?nid=1667 Puget Sound Clean Air Agency: www.pscleanair.org Central Pierce Fire and Rescue: www.centralpiercefire.org Tacoma Pierce County Health Department: www.tpchd.org Risk on CampusWhile there are numerous potential risks governed by safety and environmental

  • Achievement (MESA); Residential Life Office; Student Engagement Office; Center for Gender Equity; Diversity Center; Women’s and Gender Studies Program Executive Committee; and the University Dispute Resolution Committee, among others. The University Diversity Advisory Board will be appointed by the president, in consultation with the UDC co-chairs. General Purpose: To lead the development of a strategic plan for a diverse and inclusive living, learning, and working community and engage the administration

  • structural integrity when intermixing scaffold components Make sure intermixed scaffold components: Fit together without force and maintain the scaffold’s structural integrity. Make sure a qualified person determines that modifying components in order to intermix them will result in a structurally sound scaffold. Make sure scaffold components made of different metals aren’t used together.Exemption: Different types of metals may be used together if a competent person determines that galvanic action won’t

  • Fund Jack G. Shaheen Mass Communication Scholarship Davis Wright Tremaine LLP: Pre-Law Diversity Fellowship Job Websites: Diversity Employers IMDiversity INROADS Workplace Diversity Publications: Doctoral Program Resources for Minority Students Equal Opportunity Publications Middle East Monitor Professional Organizations: American Muslim Health Professionals Middle East Studies Association National Iranian American Council Accounting Resources and Organizations for Minorities State and Federal Laws

  • accepted gender roles, patriotism, and the main characteristic of the charro himself, his machismo.” LaRee Graham“Through the Eyes of Native Americans: Film, Alcohol and the Mainstream Audience” LaRee Graham For years there has been studies done on Native Americans- often this has led to a fascination for Native American culture. However, when it comes to our fascinations, Hollywood has profited off of the white imagination for years. Hollywood has continually re-created the Native American figure to

  • beliefs, practices, imaginings that people have attempted to erase or eradicate. That’s a different way of thinking about the work.  Maya: Which I think, like Tyler said, is resurfacing, returning, unearthing and making space for things to breathe after having been buried.Narrator: (With a sigh of appreciation into the thoughtful silence following that evocative image, remembering Maya had focused her studies at PLU “around inequality and its intersections with our natural environment.”) Whew. Tyler